The Great Lawrence of Arabia ..David Leans masterpiece of cinema would fail on Youtube in this day and age.
Putting a masterwork like Lawrence of Arabia on YouTube today as a brand-new indie upload would result in total algorithmic crap show
If you don't have a hyperactive thumbnail, a shocking clickbait title, and an explosive hook in the first five seconds, the automated recommendation engine will bury the video in minutes. A slow-burn, beautifully paced masterpiece would get completely flattened by the platform's retention metrics, stalling out at less than 1,000 views while short-form junk racks up millions. It is a brutal reflection of how modern tech completely chokes out fine art.
I mean think about that such a masterpiece of a movie and it would prob not even get 20k views maybe even less ..This is a complete reflection of where modern society has devolved too
Now if Christopher Nolan was directing it and Universal was putting up 100 million dollars to advertise this new movie ..pretending like David Lean had never been born ...well it would probably win a Oscar LOL !